Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer

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Sadly it contains similar words, "causing the body to be cremated" and I suspect the person who did that may have a similar role to yourself. The passion Evie has for her job and the extra mile she goes for all her people is heart warming and inspiring. It has made me rethink my own hazy death wishes (no pun intended) and reinvigorated me to properly sit down and document some things like the far distant seeming will/funeral instead of just winging it with my life insurance. This really jumped out at me, as I often feel that people focus on lifespan and not the value and quality of life we have.

Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral

I've come across more than my fair share of faceless bureaucrats who have gone about their job with complete disdain for the people they are meant to help lately. She does use a lot of English slang (never in a disrespectful way) and terms and names unfamiliar to most Americans, so you will find yourself consulting a dictionary and/or the Internet quite frequently. Evie King is a local council worker charged with carrying out Section 46 funerals under the Public Health Act. Beautifully written, beautiful, heartbreaking, uplifting and serious food for thought for everyone since as she (obviously) correctly points out, we all die. She has always written short form pieces, in the margins of her various day jobs, contributing to New Humanist, Guardian Comment is Free, BBC Comedy and Viz Comic.

Read on for a remarkable discovery into our world of mourning and sorrow through King’s compassionate words! It will, hopefully, give you a different perspective on death and making sure we make our wishes known before we depart.

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Where care homes have agreements with funeral homes, where families are embarrassed because they can't pay for a loved one's funeral, and the care a council can give. This book gives you an insight into what life is like as a council worker arranging funerals for the dearly departed. In a gentle and funny tone Evie King highlights both the bureaucracy and the humanity that is behind funerals organised under Section 46. I found the author's attitude to dying to be positively infectious, so the book has probably had a lasting impact on the ways in which I think about death and dying, as well as making the most out of living.Evie works for her local council where she organises the funerals of those who have no family or whose family cannot afford to lay them to rest. During the book Evie reveals something of herself and how she got her peculiar but essential job, and we enter a twilight world hardly any of us knows anything about. From tragic stories like an unidentified woman found on a beach without even her name being recorded, to uplifting tales that illustrate the beauty of celebrating someone’s life against all odds; this remarkable book promises readers an insight into fulfilling a job they may not have heard of before.

Book Review: Ashes To Admin - MyGoodbyes

Her stories are sometimes tragic, as with the case of an unidentified woman found on a beach buried without even a name, but often uplifting and occasionally hilarious. Evie King works for her local council and part of her job is to carry out funerals under Section 46. I just finished the pages of Evie King’s Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer for a second time this year. As she learns on the job, her story is told through a series of case studies, from bodies discovered at home, to deaths in care homes, and on through to the outbreak of Covid, this is an insight into the way death is dealt with on a political and personal level. King brings us face-to-face with these unusual circumstances that touch on life and death together in unexpected ways.The answer to this very three-in-the-morning question is that Evie, or someone like her, will step in and arrange your funeral. Evie King is a council worker charged with sorting out Section 46 funerals - funerals for those with no one or no one able or willing to do so on their behalf. Where this becomes impossible is when either the deceased has no apparent family or their identity is unknown.